Refugees of Revolution : The German Forty-Eighters in America

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas. PREFACE CONTENTS Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION Chapter 2. THE GERMAN ELEMENT BEFORE 1848 Chapter 3. THE REVOLUTION OF 1848–1849 Chapter 4. THE RESPONSE FROM AMERICA Chapter 5. THE GREAT MIGRATION Chapter 6. UPROOTED LIVES Chapter 7. NON-GERMAN FORTY–EIGHTERS Chapter 8. “GERMAN FENIANISM” Chapter 9. “LATIN FARMERS” Chapter 10. FREETHINKERS AND PERSONAL LIBERTY Chapter 11. THE TURNER Chapter 12. POLITICAL RADICALISM Chapter 13. NATIVISM Chapter 14. THE SLAVERY ISSUE Chapter 15. THE BATTLE FOR THE GERMAN VOTE Chapter 16. IN DEFENSE OF THE UNION Chapter 17. THE POLITICS OF THE POST-WAR YEARS Chapter 18. THE JOURNALISTS Chapter 19. THE GERMAN SOCIAL PATTERN Chapter 20. LEARNING AND LETTERS Chapter 21. THE REWARDS OF LABOR IN FREE AMERICA Chapter 22. BISMARCK AND GERMAN UNITY Chapter 23. THE END OF AN ERA INDEX